A changing face of China in Latin America and Africa: From economic statecraft to complex multilateralism?

Welcome to this breakfast seminar on China's role in Africa and Latin America.

Photo: A Chinese construction site in El Salvador

Photo: A Chinese construction site in El Salvador by Benedicte Bull.

Video recording of the seminar

By Xiangming Chen:


China is increasing its presence in Africa and Latin America, through the roll-out of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). However, the means and actors involved are changing.

In this seminar we invite Xiangming Chen, a renowned scholar on BRI-related issues, to share his insights and discuss and compare those changes and the implications for sustainable transformations in the two regions. Xiangming is a guest researcher at the Research Council of Norway (RCN) funded project “Moving up the value chain: Intermediation in industrial upgrading in the Pearl River Delta” and Fudan European Centre for China Studies (FECCS), Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, UiO.

Programme

  • Lecture by Xiangming Chen, Professor and the Director of Urban Studies, Trinity College (USA), and Guest Professor, Fudan University (China).
  • Discussion with Benedicte Bull and Dan Banik, Professors of the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo.
  • Moderator: Chunrong Liu, managing director of the Fudan-European Centre for China Studies.

Organizers

The seminar is co-organized by University of Oslo and the Fudan-European Centre for China Studies. It is a part of a series of seminars organized by MultiChina, an ongoing research project funded by the Research Council of Norway at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo.

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Published May 20, 2022 1:57 PM - Last modified June 28, 2022 1:20 PM